Christmas Salt Dough Decorations
If you’re looking for something fun to do with the kids, how about making some of these Christmas Salt Dough Decorations. It is a fun yet simple enough activity for the kids to take part in, and the decorations make fab personalised gifts for your loved ones (whether they like it or not!)
Salt Dough Ingredients:
- 1 x Cup of Salt
- 2 x Cups of Plain Flour
- ¾ to 1 x Cup of Water
Materials:
- Mixing bowl
- Spoon
- Rolling pin
- Greaseproof paper
- Baking tray
- Straw (or something else you can use to make a small hole for the ribbon to go through)
- Cookie cutters
- Paint
- Paintbrushes
- Glitter
- Ribbon
Instructions:
- Preheat your oven to 150°C and line a baking tray with greaseproof paper
- Measure out your ingredients
- Add the flour and salt in a mixing bowl and stir
- Add the water to the mixture a little bit at a time until you are happy you have a doughy consistency. If you add too much water, just add a little more flour to your mixture
- Knead your dough until it is smooth
- Sprinkle a little bit of flour on your surface and then roll out your dough
- Press your cookie cutters into your rolled out dough
- Make a hole in each shape using a straw so you can put ribbon through them
- Place the shapes on your lined baking tray
- Bake until the shapes are completely solid. The time it takes to bake is dependent on their size and thickness. Check regularly to make sure they aren’t burning, and turn over halfway through
- Once baked, allow the shapes to cool completely
- Then you can decorate each shape (I painted mine and sprinkled glitter all over them, while the paint was still wet)
- Leave your little creations to dry and then thread ribbon through them
There you go, handmade Christmas Salt Dough Decorations to hang on your tree or gift to your loved ones.
Check out these Christmas Paper Plates for another festively themed activity to try with the kids.
Thanks for reading,
Sam x
*UPDATE*
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12 Comments
Sophie
Lovely post. I always use salt dough at school as the children love to make decorations at this time of year. #blogcrush
stressymama
Thank you. I don’t ever remember using salt dough in school, I know I would have loved it though x
The Squirmy Popple
These look great – simple enough even for a non-craft person like me! #familyfun
stressymama
Thank you. They are really easy – they have to be for me haha x
Baby Isabella
These Christmas Salt Dough Decorations look awesome! We’re going to try some this week 🙂 #familyfunlinky
stressymama
Thank you. I might make some more before Christmas lol x
Donna
So cool, we haven’t done any salt dough this year, bad mummy! #familyfun
stressymama
Haha. I think I enjoy it more than Molly to be fair! X
Mama Grace
These are so cool. #FamilyFunLinky
stressymama
Thank you x
Alice | Letters to my Daughter
I’ve got such fond memories of making things out of salt dough with my mum when I was a child. I’d love to have a go with my daughter. Thanks for inspiring me!
And congratulations because someone loved this post so much, they added it to the #BlogCrush linky! Feel free to collect your “I’ve been featured” blog badge 🙂
tammymum
Ah what a great idea!! I think I could actually make them and the kids would love doing it. I have been looking for something to do tomorrow and this looks ideal, thank you so much and thank you for joinin us at #familyfun